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Pareu

human history
  • Other Name

    Skirt (English)

  • Description

    Pareu. Skirt. Bundles of dyed-black strips of rito (coconut leaf) interwoven into an Iri taki tori (3-ply plait) made of strands of rito (coconut leaf). The waistband is finished in an iri taki a (4-ply braid). Small white beads are scarcely interspersed and threaded across bast.

  • Place
  • Associated Place
  • Accession Date
    1899
  • Other Id

    8347 (ethnology)

  • Department
dress, 8347, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 30 Sep… … Read more

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